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Books of the Bible are listed differently in the canons of Jews, and Catholic, Protestant, and Eastern OrthodoxChristians, although there is overlap. Most modern editions in English follow either the Roman Catholic or the standard Protestant canon. Some otyher important printed canons are covered here, but the enormous number of different canons found in manuscript Bibles and listings in various writings are not.

Contents

Old Testament (including Tanakh)

The Tanakh, or Jewish scriptures, have the following standard arrangement.

Jewish Scriptures or Tanakh

Torah or Law

Nevi'im or Prophets

Ketuvim or Writings

1. Genesis 2. Exodus 3. Leviticus 4. Numbers 5. Deuteronomy

Former Prophets

6. Joshua

7. Judges

8. Samuel

9. Kings

Latter Prophets

10. Isaiah

11. Jeremiah

12. Ezekiel

13. The Twelve Prophets

a. Hosea

b. Joel

c. Amos

d. Obadiah

e. Jonah

f. Micah

g. Nahum

h. Habakkuk

i. Zephaniah

j. Haggai

k. Zechariah

l. Malachi

14. Psalms 15. Proverbs 16. Job

The Five Rolls

17. Song of Songs

18. Ruth

19. Lamentations

20. Ecclesiastes

21. Esther

22. Daniel
23. Ezra-Nehemiah
24. Chronicles

The Protestant Old Testament is identical to the Tanakh in contents, but different in arrangement. The usual Christian arrangement of both Old and New Testaments is into historical, teaching and prophetic (past, present and future). This is not usually made explicit in the tables of contents of English Bibles, though it is commoner in German and Latin ones. The Roman Catholic Old Testament includes additional books (marked here with *) and passages in other books (marked with †).

historical books

Pentateuch

Genesis

Exodus

Leviticus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

Joshua

Judges

Ruth

Samuel (2 books)

Kings (2 books)

Chronicles (2 books)

Ezra

Nehemiah

Tobit*

Judith*

Esther†

1 Maccabees*

2 Maccabees*

teaching books

Job

Psalms

Proverbs

Ecclesiastes

Song of Songs or Song of Solomon

Wisdom*

Ecclesiasticus or Sirach*

prophetic books

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Lamentations

Baruch*

Ezekiel

Daniel†

Hosea

Joel

Amos

Obadiah

Jonah

Micah

Nahum

Habakkuk

Zephaniah

Haggai

Zechariah

Malachi

The Eastern Orthodox Church has never considered it important to define a definite canon of scripture. On the whole, it theoretically recognizes only the Protestant canon of the Old Testament as fully canonical inspired scripture, but other works are regarded as part of the scriptures and in practice treated little differently. In addition to all the contents of the Roman Catholic canon, the following are regularly included in modern Eastern Orthodox printed Bibles:

1 Esdras

3 Maccabees

Psalm 151

Prayer of Manasseh

Many editions also include one or other of the following:

2 Esdras

4 Maccabees

Early Protestant Bibles and some more recent ones included the "extra" books of the Roman Catholic canon and some others in a separate section, usually between the Old and New Testaments and under the title Apocrypha, sometimes with notes explaining their inferior status. A similar practice is followed in recent ecumenical Bibles. Those usually included in addition are

1 Esdras

2 Esdras (the Western version here includes pasages not found in Orthodox Bibles)

Prayer of Manasseh

The standard printed editions of the Bible of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church (which is Oriental Orthodox, not Eastern) add the following to the Tanakh:

Enoch

Jubilees

Wisdom

Prayer of Manasseh

1 Esdras

2 Esdras

additions to Esther

Judith

Tobit

Psalm 151

Ecclesiasticus

Baruch

additions to Jeremiah

additions to Daniel

2 books of Maccabees, different from all those mentioned above

New Testament

In general, among Christian groups the New Testament canon is agreed-upon, although book order can vary. The listing here is the normal order in English Bibles.